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Dalmakethar
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1017
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1017 (1017)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Applegarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 1197 9217
- Latitude
- 55.21592
- Longitude
- -3.38516
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Footprint
- 0.94 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1890); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1964); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 653
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7344
- National record
- record NY 19 SW 6; monument 66970
- Wikidata
- Q31060778
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1891) 'A general view of the forts, camps, and motes of Dumfriesshire, with a detailed description of those in Upper Annandale, and an introduction to the study of Scottish motes', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25 (1890-91), 198-256
- RCAHMS (1920) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Seventh Report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries. HMSO: Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1997) Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh